Assessing Impact of Media

Jay Rosen to Journalists and Editors: “Facebook Has All the Power. You Have Almost None”

July 12, 2014

In this interview with Julie Posetti of the World Editors Forum, media scholar Jay Rosen explains the controversy behind Facebook’s “emotional contagion” experiment. How will we know when companies’ research collection practices are changing? “The first Internet company that succeeds big — like, culturally big — with terms-of-service that are readable, understandable, equitable, and humane will signal a shift,” he says.